Maple Hill Cemetery
1861 - Present

Maple Hill Cemetery is a nonprofit cemetery which is owned by its Lot Owners and which is administered by a Board of Trustees.

Originally started in 1861, the cemetery later incorporated the remains of many from Helena’s other existing cemetery, “Graveyard Hill,” in 1865, after Graveyard Hill was destroyed by the shells and gunfire of the Battle of Helena, July 4, 1863.

In the first years of the cemetery's existence, when newly drawn lots were being purchased, the remains of many were removed from the shattered cemetery and from places of burial in private yards and reinterred in the new cemetery. The oldest headstone, moved from Graveyard Hill, has a death date of 1827. After the Civil War, one acre of land within Maple Hill was set aside to house the remains of confederate soldiers, which is called the “Confederate Cemetery.”

Ever since, Maple Hill has provided a final resting place for thousands of Helena’s residents, and among its headstones are more stories than could be told in a lifetime. Click below to read more about Maple Hill’s History.